Bio-informatics Overview

Picture this: You have a splitting headache. You go to a doctor who diagnoses you. He then feeds your information  into a computer and voila! A pill customised to match your genetic code pops out. Science fiction? Not necessarily. Welcome to the world of Bioinfomatics.

 

Bioinfomatics is where carbon meets silicon. It is the fusion of computer science and biology. The field of Bio-informatics specialises in computer software that enables in-depth research into the mysteries of the human body. Earlier, research was driven by instinct and luck. It is now moving into a more technologically driven era.

 

Research in such a complex field as human science generates a lot of data. This information needs to be processed so that it may be understood properly. In Bio-informatics, you will use computer software tools for database creation, data management, data warehousing and global communication network. You will then integrate them with the user interface. What this means is that you will understand the science of biology and convert it into a mathematical form using a computer. 

 

Then you will make a system where in a scientists will feed in some numbers and the computer spits out the result on a paper or a 3D image on the computer screen.

 

Bioinfomatics is used in areas such as chemical engineering, drug design, vaccine design, etc. Through Bio-informatics, you will help scientists determine the structure of cells and proteins, how they behave and how they react with other cells and chemical compounds.

 

For instance, you can look at a virus and accordingly design a drug, which will be capable of killing it and stimulate its effectiveness on the computer! Now imagine how easy it has become for scientists trying out the millions of permutations and combinations of genetic code. 

 

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